Geography
Explorers
Mesopotamia
Sumerians
New World
100
Name one continent of the Old World.
What is Africa, Asia, Antartica, Australia, or Europe
100
The year that Columbus discovered America
What is 1492?
100
These people dig up and study the remains of ancient cities: a. archaeologists b. farmers c. sculptors d. evolutionists
What are archaeologists?
100
The Sumerians' form of wedge shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
100
The first Spanish settlement in America was: a. Pensacola b. Quebec c. Jamestown d. St. Augustine
What is (d) St. Augustine?
200
True or false: The circumference of the earth is 8,000 miles.
What is false? (The circumference is 25,000)
200
Discovered the Grand Canyon
Who is Coronado?
200
The most important Sumerian City
What is Ur?
200
Which is not a main occupation of the Sumerians: a. farmers b. sailors c. herdsmen d. shepherds
What is (b) sailors?
200
Canada's first name
What is Vinland or New France
300
The imaginary line that runs halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole is the ______________.
What is the equator?
300
Helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World
Who is Champlain?
300
The mountain on which we believe Noah's Ark came to rest.
What is Mt. Ararat.
300
The tall temples that Sumarians built for worshiping their gods.
What are ziggurats?
300
The explorer that first called America a "New World"
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
All the area between the equator and the North Pole is the _______________ Hemisphere.
What is Northern?
400
Explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
Who is De Soto?
400
The word Mesopotamia means _________.
What is "between the rivers"?
400
Sumerian moon god
What is Nanna?
400
Great Indian tribe that lived in what is now Mexico
What is Aztecs?
500
The Eastern Hemisphere has __________land than the Western Hemisphere.
What is more?
500
The most famous British "sea dog"?
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
500
The southern part of Sumer
What is Chaldea?
500
Instrument that the Sumerians used to stamp their documents
What is a seal?
500
The place that Columbus first landed
What is San Salvador?
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